Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.11-1
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
For some packages, aptitude may list a (reverse) dependency multiple times
in the dependency list. This happens when two or more dependencies directly
or indirectly resolve to the same package.
Example:
About 700-800 (estimated) packages depend on debconf. Currently, the majority
use the following dependency declaration:
Depends: [...] debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0 [...]
As the package 'debconf' actually provides 'debconf-2.0' as well, aptitude ends
up including debconf twice in the list of dependencies.
For the reverse dependencies, the same holds: For instance, the reverse
dependency
list of debconf includes almost all packages twice, and some three times
because of
this. This results in a list of about 1600 reverse dependencies for debconf.
Packages that end up being listed three times in debconf's reverse dependency
list,
seem to have the following dependency declaration:
Depends: [...] debconf, [...] debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0 [...]
(based on a sample of a few packages that I checked)
It would be nice if, where possible, identical packages were not listed multiple
times in (reverse) dependency lists.
Kind regards,
Rogier.
-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.11 compiled at Jun 9 2014 21:54:38
Compiler: g++ 4.8.3
Compiled against:
apt version 4.12.0
NCurses version 5.9
libsigc++ version: 2.2.11
Gtk+ support disabled.
Qt support disabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20140712
cwidget version: 0.5.17
Apt version: 4.12.0
aptitude linkage:
linux-gate.so.1 (0xf76f7000)
libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
(0xf7167000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xf712c000)
libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xf7108000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0
(0xf7102000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0xf6ffe000)
libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xf6f28000)
libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 =>
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 (0xf6f11000)
libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/sse2/libxapian.so.22 (0xf6d11000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
(0xf6cf5000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf6c03000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xf6bbd000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf6ba0000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xf69f4000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xf69f0000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xf69eb000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xf69d2000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xf69c0000)
liblzma.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0xf6998000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xf698f000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xf6989000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf76f8000)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii aptitude-common 0.6.11-1
ii libapt-pkg4.12 1.0.7
ii libboost-iostreams1.55.0 1.55.0+dfsg-2
ii libc6 2.19-10
ii libcwidget3 0.5.17-1
ii libgcc1 1:4.9.1-4
ii libncursesw5 5.9+20140712-2
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.11-4
ii libsqlite3-0 3.8.6-1
ii libstdc++6 4.9.1-4
ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140712-2
ii libxapian22 1.2.18-1
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.6.11-1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1
ii sensible-utils 0.0.9
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii apt-xapian-index 0.46
ii debtags 1.12.1
pn tasksel <none>
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/logrotate.d/aptitude changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
